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I did 1000+ words today and, combined with yesterday’s 700+, I’ve somehow done more than a half of my weekly goal. It seems that the weekly goal is a good idea, at least for somebody having a family and a day job because it helps to do at least some words every day (instead of [...]

Yesterday night, I sneaked out to the kitchen like an alcoholic mother looking for that hidden bottle of cheap cherry wine, sat on the floor and typed 700+ words, got my heroine in trouble (but she was asking for it big time, and really, how much leeway is she supposed to have, bringing trouble everywhere [...]

With both kids, I tried to employ the “distract them with something else” tactic when they were naughty, wanted something I didn’t want to give/do etc. With both of them, the lesson worked very well: from age of two and half, whenever I wanted them to do something or was scolding them for something, they [...]

So, yesterday I snuck out for an hour and wrote till I had 700+ words, and today I wrote 200+ words during luch break. I’m not feeling particularly elated about where I am, Vega-wise (and I have no progress in my critters story, but that could be simply because the story is a failure). What [...]

Today I realized that I have a huge craving to do NaNoWriMo this year. Something quirky and fun and perhaps meticuously outlined just to make me work with an outline, goshdammit. Impossible, if I am still working on Vega. Possible and actually encouraged if I have finished Vega. (A much needed mind-clearing sweep that could [...]

Being loved is all right as a motivation to succeed; but well, let’s face it, people who love me will not change their feelings just because I succeed (or fail). Besides, success is a big scary thing and not every big scary thing does you good. Being hated is way more powerful; people expecting (and [...]